Quotes about past
past years giving
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content. Marcus Tullius Cicero
past men yield
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul Marcus Tullius Cicero
past greek males
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria. Marcus Tullius Cicero
past trouble pleasant
It is pleasant to recall past troubles. Marcus Tullius Cicero
past remembrance sorrow
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. Marcus Tullius Cicero
past thinking old-things
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things. Marc Almond
past pops chasing
You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past. Marc Almond
past thinking opposites
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. Marc Almond
past want complexity
Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past. Marc Benioff
past thinking years
I wanted to lose weight when it was my time to lose weight, not because someone's calling me out for it. I've been called the Fat Kardashian Sister for the past ten years. But I could have gone and gotten gastric [bypass surgery] or done liposuction or whatever and I did not feel the need to do that, and I didn't think - I sincerely didn't think anything was "wrong with me." Khloe Kardashian
past my-past bits
My past is a bit checkered. Kid Rock
past thinking views
History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film. Ken Loach
past years balance
I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance. Kelly Clarkson
past next helping
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future. Margaret Atwood
past race interesting
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. Mark Twain
past moments pondering
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always. Mark Twain
past years medicine
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions. Mark Twain
past men land
In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. Mark Twain
past history doe
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Mark Twain
past history facts
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored. Mark Twain
past firsts good-times
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. Mark Twain
past knowing pieces
I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things. Leonard Slatkin
past perception may
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass. Leonardo da Vinci
past intelligent mind
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. Leonardo da Vinci
past may observation
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly. Leonardo da Vinci
past men artist
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. Oscar Wilde
past amusing
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. Oscar Wilde
past wife bars
I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar. Paul Reiser
past lessons matter
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget. Paul Gillmor
past illumination understanding
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination. Paul Fussell
past history understanding
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. Paul Fussell
past fruit bears
The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present. Patrick Rothfuss
past race should-have
That was a frustrating race for me. I pushed as hard as possible at the start on the medium tyres whilst everyone around me was on the grippier soft compound rubber. Once I moved to the soft tyres I was able to set the race's then fastest lap so things looked good with our strategy. Unfortunately the engine anti-kill triggered when I came in to make my final pit stop which cost me a lot of time. It's frustrating as we should have finished strongly. My focus is now Barcelona where I've delivered very strongly in the past. Pastor Maldonado